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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Ms. Taylor give for Liz's school absence?
(a) Liz is very sick.
(b) Liz had to move away.
(c) Liz had a terrible accident.
(d) Liz's grandmother died.

2. What does Judy tell Marlee about how she is doing in Pine Bluff in her letters to Marlee?
(a) She says she hates it there.
(b) She says she made the basketball team.
(c) She says she has tons of new friends.
(d) She says she loves it there.

3. What does Marlee discover about Liz that persuades her to want to work with Liz?
(a) Like Marlee, Liz also loves to draw.
(b) Like Marlee, Liz loves to talk.
(c) Liz has a pet weasel Marlee wants to see.
(d) Liz has a book of magic squares, which Marlee loves.

4. What animals do both Liz and Marlee like to listen to at the zoo?
(a) The monkeys.
(b) The parrots.
(c) The hyenas.
(d) The lions.

5. What prevents Marlee's mother from starting her new job?
(a) Marlee's mother is fired after the first day.
(b) A federal marshal comes to the house to tell her federal law forbids her from taking the new job.
(c) Marlee's mother realizes she will not be paid as much at the new job and changes her mind.
(d) Marlee's father threatens to leave the family if she starts the new job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Liz and Marlee decide to meet to work on their project after their first meeting in the library?

2. Where do Marlee and Liz meet for the first time after Liz is forced to leave school?

3. What does Betty Jean say is the worst that can happen when a Negro pretends to be white?

4. Which friend of Judy's does the family stop to see right after her parents tell her about their plan for her to be able to keep going to school?

5. What is the name Liz uses when she telephones Marlee?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Governor Faubus orders the schools in Little Rock to close, how do Marlee's parents react to the news?

2. Why does Judy make Marlee promise to say at least one full sentence on her first day of school?

3. What does Betty Jean tell Marlee about some of the reasons Negroes try to pass as white?

4. Why does Marlee assign a drink to each person in her life that represents that person's personality?

5. What does Marlee's father tell her about his reasons for driving her to school every day?

6. Why is Marlee disappointed with JT's behavior on the first day she meets him to help him with his math homework?

7. What does Marlee do to cope with her anxiety when she is expected to speak to new people?

8. How does Marlee decide to try to get a message to Liz after Liz can not come back to school?

9. What does Marlee discover her new math teacher, Mr. Harding, does differently than her previous math teacher on her first day of school?

10. How does Marlee's father react when Marlee's mother tells him she has accepted a position to teach at a private school?

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